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The grammatical gender is one of the unexpectedness of grammatical categories least logical and containing most of all. The word grammatical gender is connected usually with a sex designated by it by beings, however the gender and a sex often do not coincide in those languages ​​where the grammatical gender is expressed.
The Encyclopaedic Dictionary makes following definition of a grammatical gender: a grammatical gender - the traditional name of one of groups on which nouns depending on a way of the coordination with them adjectives, verbs, etc. (Masculine, feminine, neuter. In some languages ​​- masculine, feminine. Common gender is possible also). The category of gender has developed on the basis of initial semantic classification by signs В«live - lifelessВ» and (or) В«man's - a femaleВ». In some languages ​​the category of gender is absent [СЕС, 1989:1142]. Grammatical gender is considered В«the paleontologicВ» category which roots leave in mythological thinking. The Indo-European three-gender system is considered by the majority of linguists as result of transformation of more ancient system from two classes. There are different points of view on an origin of a category of a gender. A. Meje considered that it developed on the basis of opposition animateness - inanimateness [Meje, 2003], other linguists deduced it from opposition < i align = "justify"> activity - passivity [Kirilina, 1999]. grammatical gender in some cases corresponds to a sex of person, designated by a corresponding word ( the teacher - the teacher ). It concerns first of all designations of people. Semantico-symbolical function of a category of a grammatical gender consists also that at an embodiment the word grammatical gender is comprehended as a sex. So, the death in Uzbek culture symbolises a female image, and in German - man's, since. In German language this word concerns a masculine gender ( der Tod ). The feministic criticism of language affirms that the masculine gender is used more often, than a feminine gender for a designation of persons, whose biological gender is unknown, or has no value in the given context. In a number of works [Klein, 1987] the data proving such point of view is obtained. At the same time, researches of last decades bring an attention to the question on unequal psychological communication of a grammatical gender and a sex in consciousness of carriers of different languages ​​[Konishi, 1994]. For example, there is data about mental correlation of a grammatical gender and a sex in German language, rather than in Spanish.
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